Tag: Troubleshooting

Did you ever struggle to know about which dll is included with which product, or which product include which dlls, or a if a specific dll is included with a specific product … ? I did.. multiple times. I just found a good section of http://support.microsoft.com which can help you with these. Have a look…

Just I noticed [from a customer complain] that if you have word hosted [embedded] in any active document host, like Excel etc. and you try to do a Insert-> Image from Scanner or Camera, then word crashes. So what resolution do I have for this? not a great one ..I confess but, something is better then…

If you are using browser object to open Excel files or opening Office files in browser,the file type browser flags needs to be set to “Browse in the same window.” If not, the file opens in the Office application outside the browser object. This worked well in XP and/or Windows 2003 Server. But if you are…

Here is the story ! i wanted to add a customization assembly to my document on the fly the scenario is .. i will have an ASP page that will enable users to upload a few documents, now..on the server i will add a customization assembly to it using “ServerDocument.AddCustomization” ..looks simple .. but hold…

Got an intresting case a few days back.. which lead me think about the ways of generating thumbnails of all the pages of a document. Now, why would you need it ?? well ..i don’t know.. maybe you have an app and you want users to click on the thumbnails of a specific page to…

We’ve noticed that Over 25% of the support volume for Office 2003 is directly related to error messages. Quite often the customer will give the SE the general idea of what the error is saying and not the exact text string. This makes finding the right prescriptive content difficult. The unique ID addresses this problem To…

I bet life is learning, and there is a good saying in IT “you stop earning; when you stop learning” (never heard this before..ok i admit i made it up :)). A few days i came across a problem simply i wanted to have a small tool that can archive all the XLS & DOC files…

Hello I found one little bug ? (or its a community server issue )in windows live writer ! I am going to let windows live writer team know about it but first i thought you should no know about it ..just to set the expectations right .. this post is a sort of “demo of the bug” actually i…

Finally I was able to cross post in my different blogs, but unfortunately not in the way i thought. Its nobody’s fault i have facility in MSDN blogs to Cross-Post, but i am not able to use it..! so i finally resorted to a *free* blogging software PostXING that allows Cross-Posting to different blogs, so…

Doing many different sort of modifications in my blog so you are not getting consistant behavior whenever you come here .. i apologize for that..just wanted to share what i want to achieve here. 1) Adding some sort of interactivity…so that you can have a few tools that you can use to interact with me,…